Free Spyware Detection & Removal Software

Ad-Aware Ad-Aware Personal provides advanced protection from known data-mining, aggressive advertising, Trojans, dialers, malware, browser hijackers, and tracking components. This software is downloadable free of charge. http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

Spybot: Search & Destroy A malware, spyware and adware removal program for Microsoft Windows. Like most malware scanners, Spybot-S&D scans the computer hard disk and/or RAM for malicious software. http://spybot.safer-networking.de/

CWShredder CWShredder finds and destroys traces of CoolWebSearch. CoolWebSearch is a name given to a wide range of different browser hijackers. Though the code is very different between variants, they are all used to redirect users to coolwebsearch.com and other sites affiliated with its operators. http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredder_download.html

SpywareBlaster SpywareBlaster can help keep your system spyware-free and secure, without interfering with the "good side" of the web. http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

SpywareGuard SpywareGuard provides a real-time protection solution against spyware that is a great addition to SpywareBlaster's protection method. http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html

Hijack This A popular freeware spyware removal tool for Microsoft Windows created by Merijn Bellekom. http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner Detect a multitude of spyware, adware, trojan, keylogger and trackware components; sources of irritation that antivirus software does not deal with. http://www.kephyr.com/